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On November 18, Attorney General Merrick Garland named Jack Smith as independent special counsel to lead the investigation of the classified material case, and to review Trump's role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, with specific focus on any potential obstruction to the transfer of presidential power that may have occurred ...
After the indictment, Trump and his allies within the Republican Party escalated verbal attacks on the FBI, Justice Department, and federal prosecutors, whom Trump denounced in a speech to the Georgia Republican Party as "cowards", "fascists and thugs", and "sinister forces" days following his indictment. [165]
Attorney Norm Eisen had a long history of anti-Trump legal cases before representing FBI agents suing to protect their names from public release over the Jan. 6 investigation.
Donald J. Trump was a federal criminal case against Donald Trump, former president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 and the current president of the United States from 2025 to 2029 regarding his alleged participation in attempts to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election, including his involvement in the January 6 Capitol attack.
Trump supporters denied this and said the former president has been unfairly charged by DOJ and FBI officials in the classified documents case and in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.
In the meantime, a Trump attorney asked a senior Justice Department lawyer and FBI agents to meet at Mar-a-Lago on June 3 and pick up the “responsive documents.”
Trump's behavior during the days immediately before and after Comey's firing caused them to begin investigating whether Trump had been working on behalf of Russia against U.S. interests, knowingly or unknowingly. The FBI merged that counterintelligence investigation with a criminal obstruction of justice investigation related to Comey's firing.
The Trump administration also began efforts to obtain the names of every FBI employee who worked on Jan. 6 cases, sparking fears of a mass firing that have roiled the bureau.